Friday, February 8, 2013

Newsletter February 8

Did you hear about the special visitor we had to the Seal Class? Mason and his mom shared a house finch that they had rescued. They had found it in their neighborhood with the help of another SMS student. They brought her to the Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center to be treated for conjuctivitis. She spent many weeks getting better before she was able to be released back into the wild. On her trip home she made a stop at our class. We learned so many interesting facts about birds and Finches in particular. Thank you Mason and Mrs. West!

We are learning about:

function boxes

editing our writing to make it stronger and easier to read

doubles

the sound the glued letters -ank,- unk, -ink and -onk make in words

all thinks 100

making change

adding with place value

Some Activities we did:

painted our Valenine boxes

played roll to 100

tallied and coin tossed to 100

wrote about ourselves at 100 years old

exercised to Move to Learn

continued writing lots of books based on Mo Willems' craft

collected bits of snow and ice and observed how quickly they melted

played a new word game

had a 100 day parade with our sashes

Ready for the parade

ipad app: Mo Willems Don't Let the Pigeon Run This App!poem of the week: 100 Days of School